Dandelaion

DfE · beta pilot

Attendance reports using similar schools

"Identifying schools which are a similar to a given school, for the purposes of comparing their attendance"

Publicly known

  • Owner: DfE
  • Vendor: Engine Partners UK LLP

Undisclosed

  • Model architecture
  • Model performance benchmarks
  • Training data provenance

Who is actually being paid

Engine Partners UK LLP

OC365812

Role

Data Engineering: producing a data pipeline to produce pupil-level attendance summaries from the raw daily data

Procurement procedure

Call-off from a framework

Data access terms

Engine Partners UK LLP was given a DfE login and equipment and accessed the data in the same way DfE employees do. The terms were to only process the data for use in this project, and data never left DfE’s systems

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Source: ATRS record · last updated Thu Nov 27 2025